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Welcome to the Storage Management Blog, where you can read the perspectives from storage management experts. This Blog provides insights into the storage management solution, as well as technical details about specific IBM products.

IBM Spectrum Control™ now automatically generates agentless servers for the physical servers and virtual machines in your SAN environment, so that you can easily see how they are consuming storage. IBM Spectrum Control creates agentless servers by using information about the following resources: Host connections on storage systems Host bus adapters (HBAs) on fabrics Discovered virtual machines Read about the benefits of automatic creation of agentless servers in this blog: A great time-to-value feature: IBM Spectrum Control... [More]

IBM Spectrum Control™ , a member of the IBM Spectrum Control Suite , offers a lot of value for customers who want to monitor IBM Spectrum Scale™ clusters. In addition to monitoring all your clusters, IBM Spectrum Control helps you to understand how the clusters are related to each other, to the block storage systems in your environment, and to the external cloud tiers. In this video, you learn how to use IBM Spectrum Control to monitor the use of... [More]

Watch this video to see how you can quickly set the location for your storage systems and then use the Cognos® Business Intelligence tool to create a report which shows the storage capacity by location. Let's cut to the chase As a storage administrator, you want to configure the properties of your storage resources so that you can filter or sort the resources in the GUI or in an external application if you export the data. Previously, you modified the properties of each resource individually. Now in IBM Spectrum Control™... [More]

#VMworld 2017 is over but everyone is still talking about IBM Spectrum Protect Plus , the next wave in IBM’s #data protection and recovery portfolio. It's modern technology that is easy to use, fast and low cost. Unlike a lot of products, you don’t have to be a backup expert to use IBM Spectrum Protect Plus. The software is simple to deploy and can be ready to go in as little as 15 minutes by installing a pre-built virtual machine. " IBM has been a leader in data protection for many... [More]

IBM Spectrum Control , V5.2.15, a member of the IBM Spectrum Storage Suite , continues to add value to your #storage environment through the implementation of enhanced and new features that not only save you time and money but provide important #analytic #data for reports and problem determination. In previous versions, you had to create agentless servers manually, either individually or in bulk (from a file), but now, in V5.2.15, they are created automatically at the end of probe post-processing. This... [More]

With IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1, you can now choose cloud object storage in the public cloud as the location to store and protect your data. IBM Spectrum Protect previously provided on-premises cloud object storage as a back-end storage option. But now with IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1, public cloud object storage has been added as an additional safe, secure location option, providing regional, tiered storage for your data. The cross-region level of protection is a great option if you need the additional security levels to ensure that your data is... [More]

As storage solutions evolve, customers are faced with a bewildering range of possibilities, which continually evolve, including cloud, disk, and tape storage. It's intriguing that so many IBM Spectrum Protect customers continue to rely on a traditional storage medium: tape. Estimates suggest that 50% to 90% of IBM Spectrum Protect customers use tape for at least some of their storage protection requirements. Why? Although hybrid cloud solutions are gaining popularity, tape still offers significant advantages: Protection against... [More]

Don't waste another minute. Instead, follow the example of customers around the world who have used the IBM Spectrum Protect ™ cookbooks to streamline configuration of their storage environments. The latest edition in the cookbook series just appeared on the scene, the new IBM Spectrum Protect Blueprint and Server Automated Configuration for Linux on Power Systems (Little Endian), Version 3, Release 1 . This new guide rounds out the series of V3.1 Blueprint books , which also includes Blueprints for the IBM AIX®,... [More]

In the latest release of IBM Spectrum Control, V5.2.14, there is improved granularity in IBM SAN Volume Controllers (SVC) support, including both Stretched Clusters (SVC only) and HyperSwap (SVC, IBM Storwize and V9000). The following scenario gives an insight on how the new functionality works. Bob the System Administrator is auditing his storage requirements in preparation for next year’s budget. He wants to know what systems are configured as Stretched Clusters or HyperSwap and where they are physically located. He opens... [More]

There's a problem with one of the critical applications in your storage environment. It's your job to investigate. In IBM Spectrum Control™ , you check the performance of the volumes in the application. All looks fine. You look at the pool that contains those volumes. The response time is higher than you expect. Now you want to know what was it like at the same time last week. IBM Spectrum Control makes it easy for you to compare performance metrics across different time ranges. Here's how: Open a performance view... [More]

The leaves are changing as we approach the end of the year, and its a great time for you to plan your storage growth for your company moving forward. IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights, an #IBMCloud-based offering, increases in value over time and offers unparalleled visibility to help you manage your storage infrastructure.
One of the best time to value investments is IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights at the IBM Marketplace where you can see all your storage from a single pane of glass! A typical... [More]

In this continuing blog series, I'll delve into the IBM Knowledge Center for IBM Spectrum Control to highlight some pearls of information that might help you get the most out of the product. S ome of the following documentation topics are new for version 5.2.14, and some you might not have seen before: What's new for 5.2.14 The intelligence behind how Spectrum Control schedules probes What resources can be monitored by Spectrum Control? The matrix knows. Getting help by exporting performance data Locations of log files A... [More]

Balancing the workload of applications across your IT infrastructure is key to maintaining the performance and stability of your environment. Ensuring that IBM Spectrum Control , a member of the IBM Spectrum Storage Suite , collects data at the right times and frequency can be a critical part of that load balancing strategy. When you schedule probes to collect data about resources, you can have Spectrum Control automatically schedule them. Automated probe scheduling removes the complexity of manually planning when... [More]

In response to customer requests, IBM Spectrum Protect Version 8.1.1 was updated on May 26, 2017, to include support for the Linux on Power Systems (little endian) operating system. You can get the installation package now on Passport Advantage . After you install and configure the server, you can back up data to disk devices or to cloud object storage, using one of several cloud object storage providers. The current installation package includes the server and license, but does not include the storage agent, device support, or the... [More]

It’s a good thing to be in total control of your #storage when you are an administrator dealing with your storage business environment. By taking control of the increased demands on your #data and storage environment, you can achieve better savings for your organization. IBM ® Spectrum Control ™ , a member of the IBM Spectrum Storage Suite , continues to provide you with the necessary data and functionality to improve your consistency and control over your daily storage management tasks.... [More]